SDX’s Brand Diego Awards has nominated Mindgruve in its Agency of the Year category! Agencies will be evaluated on innovation, skill, leadership, and commitment to the San Diego community, among other qualities. In addition, our very own Michael Bowen, Director of Performance Marketing, has been nominated for Agency Professional of the Year! Running for its…
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Slowing Down The Internet.
Earlier this week, Apple unveiled the new iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch in a live-streamed event marred by a bevy of technical issues. And, the Internet promptly erupted with people taking to Twitter to voice their frustration. Just one day later, the Internet slowed to a halt. No, it wasn’t your router…
Read MoreMINDGRUVE WINS VISIT CALIFORNIA POPPY AWARD FOR BEST DIGITAL/SOCIAL MEDIA INITIATIVE
SAN DIEGO, CA – February 13, 2013 – Digital marketing and technology firm Mindgruve, won a 2014 Poppy Award for Visit Carlsbad’s “Carlsbad is where…” integrated digital marketing campaign. The biennial Visit California Poppy Awards honors the best of California tourism, celebrating innovation in travel marketing. A record number of entries for the Visit California…
Read MoreHappy 10th Birthday, Facebook
On February 4th of this year, Facebook celebrated its 10th birthday. Yes, that’s how long the platform that allows you to document your life has been around. To celebrate, a team at Facebook built videos for each user, putting together a “Look Back” compilation of shared moments (mainly of photos and status updates) in a…
Read MoreRECAP: Mindgruve Gives Back to the San Diego Center for Children
We’d like to give a huge thank you to everyone who donated to our Mindgruve Gives Back campaign to benefit the San Diego Center for Children. Established in 1887, the San Diego Center for Children is an accredited, non-profit organization that provides behavioral care, therapy and counseling, and special education for children and teens in…
Read MoreMindgruve Gives Back to the San Diego Center for Children
During this holiday season, we came together as an agency to put together a truly unique piece of art to donate to the San Diego Center for Children.
Read MoreMindgruve Attends Motion 2013
This past weekend, Mindgruve was pleased to attend the Motion 2013 conference. Considered a very significant conference in the VFX industry, the event unites creative directors, producers, illustrators, writers, motion designers, animators, graphic designers, and VFX artists to share experiences and collaborate. The event takes place annually at the historic KiMo theatre in downtown Albuquerque,…
Read MoreMindgruve Wins Eight W3 Awards for Creative Excellence on the Web
Our team is excited to announce that Mindgruve has been recognized with two gold and six silver W3 Awards for a range of our clients, including our very own website. The W3 Award honors creative excellence on the web and is judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. Members of this exclusive body…
Read MoreMindgruve Wins Silver at the Travel Weekly Magellan Awards
September has been kind to Mindgruve on the awards front, and we’re thrilled to be the recipient of a silver Travel Weekly Magellan Award recognizing ChickasawCountry.com. This is the fifth award of the year for the website and we’re honored that our collaboration with Chickasaw Country has garnered such positive recognition and continued success for…
Read MoreExhibiting Excellence at the 2013 WebAwards
We’re excited to announce that, in partnership with four of our incredible clients, we are the proud winner of four 2013 WebAwards. Produced by the Web Marketing Association, the WebAwards competition has been recognizing exemplary websites for 17 years and considers entries from close to 100 unique industries. Judges are pulled from top companies including…
Read MoreGet to Voting on TheFWA.com!
Over the next few months, we’ll be submitting some of our best work to be considered for TheFWA.com’s Site of the Day award. The FWA, or “Favourite Website Awards,” has been around since May 2000 and is the most trafficked web-based awards program in Internet history. Since November 2012 alone, TheFWA.com has received more than…
Read MoreKey Takeaways from the West Coast’s Must-Attend Digital Marketing Event
Despite the fact we were busy getting to know our new alien friend, the Mindgruve team was able to attend some amazing, informative, and insightful sessions at IDSD 2013. Check out some of our favorite takeaways from our day at the conference, which include best practices and musings from top thought leaders like Rand Fishkin…
Read MoreDC Entertainment Helps the Digitally-Savvy Comic-Con Attendee Out: Launches New Events App
There are plenty of panels to see this year at the San Diego Comic-Con. And if you’re a DC comic fan, you don’t want to miss anything related to one of the most iconic comic book companies in the world. Just in time for this year’s must-attend event for all comic book fans, DC Entertainment…
Read MoreAll About Acquisitions: Keeping up with Yahoo!
Unless you’ve been living in a digital vacuum, there’s no doubt you’ve noticed Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer’s recent acquisition shopping spree. Since starting with the troubled tech giant in July 2012, Mayer has snapped up 16 companies in total, six of those in the month of May alone. From Tumblr to Summly, keeping track of…
Read MoreMindgruve Wins at Web Health Awards for MDVIP
Mindgruve is honored to be the recipient of two Web Health Awards, which acknowledge exemplary execution of digital resources for healthcare consumers and industry professionals. The awards are a division of the Health Information Resource Center’s National Health Information Awards, a program recognized as one of the most prominent in the nation since its inception…
Read More#AliensAreWatching Mindgruve at IDSD
After all our hard work preparing for our presence at IDSD, the day has come and gone and we couldn’t have had it any better! With Dan Zarrella from Hubspot kicking us off with his morning keynote presentation on social data, we were excited for a full day of learning and playing host to our…
Read MoreStrange Times at the Hilton Bayfront
It’s the week of Interactive Day San Diego, and last week’s oddities at the conference venue are far from over. Since the original UFO sighting on June 10, we’ve come across all sorts of weird footage – however, none was actually seen firsthand by the Mindgruve team until now. As some of us Mindgruvers were out…
Read MoreMindgruve Makes Top 100 in the San Diego Business Journal
Mindgruve has been named as one of the San Diego Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Private Companies. The honor acknowledges the 100 local companies making the greatest positive impact on San Diego in terms of innovation and contributions to the economy.
Read MoreMindgruve Wins Four Communicator Awards
Mindgruve is the proud winner of four silver Communicator Awards, which honor brands and agencies making innovations in the communications and marketing industry. Securing more than 6,000 entries worldwide, the Communicator Awards is one of the biggest competitions in its field and covers ten categories including Mobile & Apps, Websites, and Integrated Campaigns.
Read MoreSMMW Recap: Discussing Digital Trends with Kyle Lacy
I had the fantastic opportunity to attend Social Media Examiner’s first Social Media Marketing World conference here in San Diego this past week. For the very first conference put on by the blogging giant, SMMW was beyond impressive — not only with the caliber of speakers, but also the networking opportunities available to us. With…
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